[Da Coyote]

Huzzah! They’ll be available only a few weeks after we commission the first fusion power plant. Now, about the inadequate generating capacity, aging inadequate power grid, and worst of all, a left wing ruling party with the technical knowledge of Al Gore.

[G Larry]

Not surprising since those batteries designed 25 years ago, were never intended for powering society.

[Bernard]

Does that mean that there is enough zinc available to satisfy the fantasy? I notice that the excerpt mentions reusing the zinc anode, so just pop it out of the old battery and place it in the new one? Sounds easy-peasy.

[Skwor]

Hopium has never been a reliable source of power.. and it never will be.

[AndyJackson]

First most batteries used for solar applications are not Li ion batteries. They are LiFePO4 batteries, which are much less expensive and they are stable. They are "affordable" and work and have long-lifetimes - for say offgrid remote residential applications. Second, the idiocy of all of these articles is that they talk about various battery chemistries and manufactruing technologies as if they are avialable or at least the technology exists at a prototype or pilot scale so it can be evaluated. For the most part these things are no more than labels on an application for a research grant - some version of a bank account into which you can pour money in return for which the recipient "promises" to research the technology and find out if it can work.

It's all some sort of fraud. Some of it is well-meaning to be charitable. Much of it isn't. A lot of competent investors and existing manufacturers are scowling around to make sure they have access to the latest technology that could upset their business if someone else gets in first. And those folks are not convinced that there is anything there, or they are already funding the things that show the greatest promise.

Innovation is a lot harder than oh, I have an idea, you have money, let's partner up so I can spend your money for you.

[SecondAmendment]

The only reason we are in this mess is that the same demographic that gets degrees in social sciences instead of STEM shows up at the polls and votes ...

[dfwgator]

Or it could not.

[Shady]

Zinc/Air batteries are what most, if not all, hearing aids use.

[butlerweave]

We all know the best battery is OIL

[Moltke]

Finding a cheap, safe alternative battery to lithium is the key to moving the needle to a completely renewable power sector.

When you start with a lie... did not read any further.

Figure out how a viable distribution network will be paid for and installed first.

[catnipman]

i’ve followed and enjoyed the many claims of magic batteries being just around the corner for literally the last 50 years ... they’re all pretty much the same: we just need a few hundred million more to perfect and manufacture them ...

until recently, the suckers were private investors ... however, since the fascists took over, there’s now only one sucker for development of magic batteries: the U.S. taxpayer ...

[lurk]

Lovely. Let’s pour a few trillion taxpayer dollars into it to prop it up for a couple of decades.

[Zathras]

When I was on the laptop design team at Intel in the 90’s, we looked at every battery design out there.
As I tell people, “All the easy stuff has already been done”
There is no magic bullet that is going to solve the energy storage problem.

There are plus and minus to nearly every solution.

[Wuli]

Unless the west is willing to limit the sources of the production of zinc-ion batteries to its allies, they will be another “green” idustry that favors our enemies:

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/15-largest-zinc-producing-countries-171634364.html?guccounter=1

China is currently number one in zinc production.

[minnesota_bound]

This new battery will be like that pill you add to the gas tank that increases gas mileage.